Mac in the house! Mac in the house!
In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past however long, Hollywood’s having a marvellous time making film adaptations out of popular things – one of which being Minecraft.
The open world, build-all-the-things, kill-all-the-zombies game is being spun into its very own feature film by Warner Bros and Microsoft, and their hunt for a director has come to an end.
After giving all the potential candidates an ocular patdown, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia mainstay Rob McElhenney has been pegged for the job.
The game’s publishing comp Mojang announced the decision this morning, confirming the reasoning behind McElhenney’s presence at the recent MineCon convention in London.
McElhenney has previously directed two early episodes of Sunny – Charlie Gets Crippled and Charlie Has Cancer – as well as the original pitch pilot for the series It’s Always Sunny on TV. This will be his first dig at helming a major feature film.
Hey @Mojang let’s do something strange and wonderful.
— Rob McElhenney (@RMcElhenney) July 21, 2015
Sunny is currently contract through at least two more seasons, so the Minecraft film will more than likely have to work around that schedule, rather than the other way around.
If there’s not at least one conversation in the script about mass, and the tacking on of mass, we riot.
via Mojang.
